NYPL’s Durand Dumpers Named to Getty’s Board

As Tyler Green has just commented, it’s about time that the J. Paul Getty Trust added some trustees with art expertise.
Unfortunately, two of its three new appointees (announced here)—Paul LeClerc and Neil Rudenstine—have the wrong kind of art experience: They were the prime movers in the New York Public Library’s deplorable disposal of Asher B. Durand‘s “Kindred Spirits”: the former as the library’s president and CEO; the latter as the NYPL trustee who wrote the Ad Hoc Art Properties Committee report recommending the sales. (I wrote at length in the Wall Street Journal about the Durand disposal here.)
That leaves Frances Fergusson, former Vassar president, who, among her “many other [unnamed] responsibilities” alluded to in the Getty’s press release are memberships on several corporate boards: HSBC USA (and its principal subsidiary HSBC Bank USA), Mattel and Wyeth. Also unmentioned in the release: She is an architectural historian.